now and then

[peted]

The just keep coming Chris! Good work...

[robertpunk]

I've posted the old Addiscombe picture again because i've managed to get it without that pixelly pattern over it. I don't know why mine's better, the one that Dad posted was the same one emailed to him from my PC. Any ideas???

[ironageman]

Nice - and you can see now that it has its St John plaque in the Mk 1 position.

That Penhall Road box - it looks like a wooden box but isn't the right-hand window open? - so it's a wooden box refitted with opening metal windows?

[TG]

Nice - and you can see now that it has its St John plaque in the Mk 1 position.

Wow Ironageman you must have that same software that they have in the movies - where they can take a still from an ancient corner shop CCTV video tape and then zoom in to be able to read the serial number on the fiver being handed over the counter 

Nice picture KB and Robertpunk!

The earlier version looks like it has a 'Moire pattern' - like you get if you scan a picture from a magazine or book?

[Rassilons Rod]

I have some pics of some red phone boxes (K6?) from Covent Garden if anyone is interested... not sure where to post them though...

-Marc

[robertpunk]

I have some pics of some red phone boxes (K6?) from Covent Garden if anyone is interested... not sure where to post them though...

-Marc

We always want to see red phone box pictures! there's a thread in "the TARDIS - general" about my phone box website - http://tardisboard.proboards43.com/index.cgi?board=general&action=display&thread=1173808364 post them there and we'll be looking at them and i'll confirm if they're K6s or not

[chriskingbees]

Hi All
Now this is very interesting
This Police box is, or should I say was, at Carshalton





And so was this one



The picture that started this thread.
The mk I in the top pictures stood directly opposite the mk II, or didn't, if you follow
Incidently, it's a postcard I'm watching on ebay at the moment, found by Robert. A bit naughty to lift the pictures I know, but I do intend to bid on the item

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=290176937136&ssPageName=STRK:MEWA:IT&ih=019
Many thanks
KB

[policeboxnut]

How interesting - so if I understand this correctly, they replaced the MK I with a MK II? I wonder why? The new improved version? Or maybe the positioning was in the way of progress so the old box which couldn't be moved as one had to be demolished and as they weren't making MK I anymore they had to replace it with a MK II on the opposite side of the road...
Funny how the mind wanders when unoccupied....

Right - update. There is nothing on the other side of the road in Carshalton so scratch that theory.
I have saved the location as a KMZ but I can't figure how to link to it on here

[ironageman]

Hmm... curious... if they'd wanted to update it they'd presumably just have changed the signage and hey presto, a Mk 2. And it's a concrete Mk 1 so what could have happened to the thing that would have warranted its demolition?

[chriskingbees]

 Hi guys
This is a funny one isn't it. The location is quite near to me and I'm going to nip up there later in the week with the camera, and see if I can spot any clues
Many thanks
KB

[policeboxnut]

How did you get on Chris - this has been knawing at me for some time now.

[chriskingbees]

Hi Guys
Sorry for the wait but things to do, anyway here goes;
From these two shots you can see there is no extra building or development to speak of in the mk1 site, save a little ground work





Indeed the kink in the kerbline remains.
I went into a small antique/collector's shop (Just out of shot) and spoke with two "Older" gentlemen and showed them my pictures. To my amazement they both remembered the mk1 more than the mk2 (Maybe their minds are confused) The shopkeeper claims to have a second postcard of the mk1 with a policeman. They told me that the mk1, originally, stood in front of a butcher's called Woodman's, and that the structure in front of the box formed part of the shop from which hung meat. In that spot now is a wine bar called "The Woodman".
Still awake?? Next stop the library next door. In it I found a pictorial book of Carshalton, so take a look at this;



From the text;;
Village policeman by the Church outside Woodman's butcher's shop. circa. 1920
I note the card reads Village police "station"

Best I can do for now
KB

[zbigniev hamson]

Nothing special, just a couple of shots of the box in Sheffield city centre from about 2 years ago (one of them wasn't even the subject of the photo), I thought I'd put them here in case they are of any interest...

[ironageman]

Nice; the Sheffield style of box is rather fine.

Good work, that 'Kingbee; the mystery remains...

So, who's going to be the first to build a replica of one of those Edwardian ones? - and is Carshalton so trustworthy that they didn't need to bother with the door? or so dodgy that someone nicked it?

[policeboxnut]

so the plot thickens eh...still no clser to an explanation as to why they replaced the MK 1 with a MK2.
Just one of those questions lost in time.....